March
15
Search engine marketing no longer exists in an online vacuum. In today’s multi-channel world, people search online, visit stores to test out products, return to the internet to compare prices and then complete purchases in-store, online or via a call center. Over $155 billion worth of consumer goods was purchased online in the U.S. in [...]
March
11
Chomp could be described as a search engine for iPhone apps (and eventually other apps stores). It’s a two-month old iPhone app and more recently a website, which resembles Twitter, whose objective is to enable people to more easily discover and review iPhone apps. The proliferation of 160,000 iPhone apps has created the well-documented problem [...]
March
10
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…. seroundtable.com Related posts Daily Search Forum Recap: March 5, 2010 Daily Search Forum Recap: March 4, 2010 Daily Search Forum Recap: March 2, 2010 Daily Search Forum Recap: [...]
March
9
A WebmasterWorld thread started by forum administrator, engine, wrote: A webmaster I spoke to today was after a simple way to find new link opportunities. I mentioned something to him, which was to try using Google’s related: feature It worked… seroundtable.com Related posts Why Does Google Sometimes Show PSAs for Cumming Georgia Pages? Why Do [...]
March
8
Yesterday two of your Search Engine Land writers were in Jerusalem, Israel. Vanessa and I were holding a SphinnCon event, basically a small Search Marketing Expo event, for the Israeli SEM community. The event was given a home by the Jerusalem College of Technology for 6 hours while 30+ speakers from both in Israel and [...]
March
6
Earlier this week, we discovered that Yahoo would be the default search engine on AT&T’s first Android handset, the Motorola Backflip. That’s a first as far as I know, an Android device that doesn’t present Google as the featured search engine. However, in the bad-news column for Yahoo, according to PaidContent, T-Mobile has now swapped [...]
March
5
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…. seroundtable.com Related posts Daily Search Forum Recap: March 9, 2010 Daily Search Forum Recap: March 4, 2010 Daily Search Forum Recap: March 2, 2010 Daily Search Forum Recap: [...]
March
5
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…. seroundtable.com Related posts Daily Search Forum Recap: March 9, 2010 Daily Search Forum Recap: March 5, 2010 Daily Search Forum Recap: March 2, 2010 Daily Search Forum Recap: [...]
March
4
I’ve found it annoying that over the years, more and more people use SEM to mean paid search, as if SEM excludes seo. That’s not how I defined SEM — search engine marketing — back 2001. I’d still like to see the original definition retained. But I might be swimming against the tide. Below, how [...]
March
4
What’s search engine marketing? If you ask Wikipedia, it’s currently defined as the act of buying listings on search engines. That’s not how SEM started out being defined. It’s still not how I define it, though that might change, as my Does SEM = seo + CPC Still Add Up? article explains. But in [...] [...]